TODAY’S PAPER TOP STORY | Myanmar may have highlighted differences, but ASEAN still united: Experts
A worker adjusts an ASEAN flag at a meeting hall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 28, 2021(Reuters/Lim Huey Teng)
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The Myanmar crisis may have accentuated differences between ASEAN member states and will be one of Indonesia’s most pressing challenges during its chairmanship, experts have said.
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But they also suggested there was still reason to remain hopeful, underlining that differing opinions and divergent governance had always been characteristic of the 10-member bloc.
As such, disagreements over conflict resolution were neither unprecedented nor impossible to overcome. “Conflicting opinions within the ASEAN landscape are not new. […]
But it is a challenge. It will always be,” Dewi Fortuna Anwar, senior ASEAN researcher at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), told The Jakarta Post.
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Yvette Tanamal (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta ● Fri, January 6 2023
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